From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 6: 8: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (pop.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5DB137B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 06:07:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 151pNE-000Kv0-00; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:05:24 +0300 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:05:24 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ADyas@twowaytv.com Subject: Re: uptime limits Message-ID: <20010521160524.I60364@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ADyas@twowaytv.com References: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01775914@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01775914@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk>; from "Alex Dyas" on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:34:52PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 4:02PM up 24 days, 6:05, 5 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.08, 0.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Alex Dyas [20010521 15:36]: writing on the subject '= RE: uptime limits' Alex> > If you have an uptime of 497 days then you basically have a system = riddled Alex> with security holes. Alex>=20 Alex> This assumes that a reboot is necessary to apply a security patch. I= s this Alex> necessarily the case? For instance, an upgrade of Bind to patch a ho= le Alex> wouldn't mean powering the system down would it? I think it applies to those of us who have adopted cvsup -->make world --> make kernel option to patching. It will always be necessary for us to reboot for the changes to be eefective. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- G. B. Shaw --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7CRKUn7LIsuxjem8RAlCDAKCrbpegz5FUIo4VAQHw6BKt/8V00QCfbz3z 7aJO9e7ZUMtDEEhZcLtk+2M= =ws/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message